Handle-fastening.



F. :0. oss. HANDLE FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV, 7, 1912.

FLJL E Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

\FREDERICK person-Moss, or scanners, new anetnith.

Banana-rheumato- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16. 19:3.

Application filed November 7, 1912. Serial No. 730,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnnnnro DU rsoN Moss, :1 subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Hororata, Canterbury, New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Hantile-Fastening; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to means that have been devised for use in securing to their handles slashers and other implementshaving sockets to receive the handle ends. The means devised are intended to dispense with the necessity of passing a fastening rivet, or the like, through the socket and the portion of the handle therein, thereby weakening the handle so as to make it liable to break at such points.

The means for fastening the sockets en bodied in this invention consist of a ring of metal that encircles the socket and is made of such a diameter as to jam on to the upper end of the socket when it is forced up ward thereon, but to extend loosely around the lower end of the socket. Attached to the ring, at points diametrically opposite one another are two metal straps each one of which is formed with an aperture near its end to receive a screw or like fastening.

In fixing the appliance the handle end is inserted in the socket in the usual way. The ring is then forced up the socket to cause it to closely encircle and grip the handle and the straps are then laid against the side of the handle above the socket top and fastened thereto by screws passing through them into the handle. These straps will therefore serve to keep the fastening ring at its upper position.

.The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the imple ment socket with the fastening means loose thereon. Fig. 2 is a top elevation .thereof made fast upon a handle. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section also showing the socket fastened to the handle.

A is the socket of the slasher or other implement which is madeof any of the approved tapering shapes to receive a cone spondingly tapered end of the handle The socket is also preferably so made as to be capable of tightening upon the handle, for instance by forming it with the longitudinal' slot or slots C exmnding forward from its back end.

D is the metal ring that encircles the socket and is made of such a diameter as to loosely encircle it when at the inner end of the socket but to jam thereon when moved along toward the outer end. This ring may he made of any approved cross sectional shape such as will provide for its sliding and gripping on to the socket when forced to its larger end. 7

E are the metal straps attached to the ring D. Two of these are shown arranged at points diametrically opposite one an: other.- They are made of suiiicient length to extend beyond the back end of the socket and are pierced with apertures F at their back ends to receive a screw or other fastenmg. v

It will be seen that when a handle end is inserted into the socket, the ring being at the inner end thereof, forced out along the the wall of the socket to tighten uniformly on to the handle and grip it firmly throughout the length of the socket. The ring is then prevented from giving back to loosen this grip, by fastening the straps E to the handle by means of screws or through the apertures F into the handle.

The handle end may be removed whenever required by unfastening the straps and forcing th ring forward to loosen its grip on the socket.

What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. The combination with a tool provided with a split handle receiving socket formed integrally with the tool; of means slidably mounted on the socket andpermanently at tached thereto and arranged to-compress the split end ofthe socket when moved toward said end.

2. The combination with a tool with an integral taperin said socket being provide socket, it will cause provided with longitude and the ring is then the like passed handle socket,x

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1121 slits extenfiing from thelarger end; of specification in the presence of two subscrib- & ring of less diameter than the tool body mg Witnesses.

arid lar er end of the socket and slidable r *a Y between the tool body and said larger end, FREDERICK U S MOSS 5 and meanscarried by the ring for securing Witnesses:

the ring in adjusted position'on a handle. ALFRED RICHARDSON, In testimony whereof, I have signed this ARTHUR S. CROWE. 

